The battery battle for Britain

摘要

Advanced battery activity in the UK? Or even plain battery activity in the UK? Until a year ago, you would have questioned if it really existed. Well there's still lead-acid manufacture at Enersys in Newport, the novel lithium player Oxis near Oxford, Nissan's battery operation in Sunderland (for the Nissan Leaf) and a few tiddlers, making specialist batteries for the military and other niche sectors.